A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

In the democracies of the world, the passion for freedom of speech and of thought is always accentuated when there is an effort anywhere to keep ideas away from people and to prevent them from making their own decisions. One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education and thus make it impossible for them to understand what is going on in the world as a whole. […] The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books, but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1943-05-11), “My Day”

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/81…

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The Structural Necessity of #ThoughtControl: Why #Theocracy and #IntellectualFreedom Are #Logically Incompatible

This paper argues that #theocratic #governance and #intellectual #freedom are not merely in tension but logically incompatible.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5975597

We dont't need En-Shittification
We don't need no #ThoughtControl

Oh, look! 🎉 Yet another genius idea from the land of freedom, where the government now wants to dictate college ideology in exchange for cash. 🤔 Because nothing screams academic integrity like a little mandatory state-sponsored thought control! 🏫💸
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-sets-hiring-foreign-enrolment-terms-colleges-get-funding-advantage-2025-10-02/ #freedomofspeech #academicintegrity #thoughtcontrol #collegeideology #governmentoverreach #HackerNews #ngated

Texas Tech gender discussion edict spur fear, confusion | The Texas Tribune https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/texas-tech-university-system-transgender-identity-restrictions/ #texas #texastech #fascism #highered #transgender #education #thoughtcontrol

A quotation from George Orwell

There are people who are convinced of the wickedness both of armies and of police forces, but who are nevertheless much more intolerant and inquisitorial in outlook than the normal person who believes that it is necessary to use violence in certain circumstances. They will not say to somebody else, “Do this, that and the other or you will go to prison”, but they will, if they can, get inside his brain and dictate his thoughts for him in the minutest particulars.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1947-03), “Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool,” Polemic Magazine, No. 7

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/78563/

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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

There can be nothing more utterly subversive of all that is really valuable than the suppression of honest thought. No man, worthy of the form he bears, will at the command of church or state solemnly repeat a creed his reason scorns.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious Society

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #honesty #honor #resistance #belief #compulsion #creed #freedomofconscience #freedomofreligion #freedomofthought #profession #religiousfreedom #subversion #suppression #thoughtcontrol #value #worthiness

The thought control that the Trump administration tries to impose makes the tendency exceed the authoritarian - it's totalitarian.

#trump #thoughtcontrol #thoughtpolice #1984isNOW #Doge #ElonMusk #USApol #totalitarianism

A quotation from Virginia Woolf

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) English modernist writer [b. Adeline Virginia Stephen]
A Room of One’s Own, ch. 4 (1929)

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"So instead of saying #NonCitizen or #migrant, they're supposed to say #alien. Instead of saying #integration, they're supposed to say #assimilation, things like that. And this particular worker described it as the most #1984 thing that they've ever gotten. And this is happening all across the #government"

#Orwellian #Fahrenheit451 #Dystopia #RayBradbury #NeoMarcarthyism #ideology #repression #newspeak #FreedomOfSpeech #ThoughtControl #Censorship #HUAC #GreatPurge #BookBurning #Wiping #Digital #Enshittification #NineteenEightyFour #BrainRot

#WhatNext | "Why #Trump ’s #DataPurge is a Digital Book Burning"

https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2025/02/donald-trump-is-changing-america-down-to-the-code

A quotation from George Markstein

Questions are a burden to others
Answers a prison for oneself

George Markstein (1926-1987) British journalist, author, screenwriter
The Prisoner, 01×01 “Arrival” (1967-09-29) [with David Tomblin]

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/markstein-george/744…

#quote #quotes #quotation #acceptance #answers #censorship #compliance #control #questions #selfcensorship #thoughtcontrol

"But just how far back does this policy of thinly-veiled thought control go?"

#bookburning #thoughtcontrol #politicalideology #history #modernpolitics

What Was the First Banned Book in History? https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-was-the-first-banned-book-in-history

#ChatControl is just a precursor to #ThoughtControl

They even kept the names similar, on trying to pretend otherwise.

Signature Mix from the past days:

https://soundcloud.com/jb303/thoughtcontrol

https://www.mixcloud.com/lephisto/thought-control/

#techno #djing #signature #thoughtcontrol

Oh what a twist here ..

Turns out #AdolfMurks aka #ElonMusk bought #Twitter with secret #Russian #Money.

Who would have seen that coming?
(Or rather, who wouldn't ?)

#SocialMedia #ThoughtControl #SecrectService

https://eutoday.net/russian-oligarch-behind-musks-twitter-purchase/

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Thought Control: Thrive with Clarity #Stoicism #ThoughtControl #Clarity #Mindfulness #SelfImprovement #Philosophy #StoicWisdom #MarcusAurelius⏩ https://bit.ly/stoicmindschannel

My new post on OCD: https://ocd-free.medium.com/mind-control-675f89a80b7f

#ocd #mentalhealth #mentalillness #affirmations #mentalhealthawareness #obsessivecompulsive #thoughtcontrol #mindcontrol

@philip_cardella@historians.social @suswatibasu @AmitR @arnfinnp

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...#CCP is now even able to control the narratives on all social and other media within the #GreatFirewallOfChina, not only apply effective #centureship. They even have been using #Orwellian #ThoughtControl techniques, prohibiting the use of certain words, sometimes temporarily.

2) Apart from ethnic minorities, which are often brutally supressed (e.g. the #Uyghurs), there really aren't the type of #CultureWars...

A quotation from Truman, Harry S:

«
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/truman-harry-s/62469/

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